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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Composite Forehead Reduction (Frontal Hairline Advancement and Frontal Bossing Reduction) in a Thin Caucasian Female

Background: While there are many features they define an aesthetically pleasing forehead two of them are of particular relevance. First the length of the forehead, as defined by the vertical distance between the eyebrows and the frontal hairline, should be proportionate to the lower facial thirds. Secondly the slope of the forehead, the relationship between Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Female Forehead Bossing Reduction Combined with Frontal Hairline Advancement

Background: The shape of the forehead is well known to be gender specific with distinctly different features for both men and women. While there are variations amongst these gender specific features (e.g., slope and width of the forehead) an excessive forward projection of the upper forehead (frontal bossing) is abnormal whether it occurs in either Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Female Forehead Feminization with Bony Reductions and Frontal Hairline Advancement

Background: Forehead feminization today is typically associated with a transgender male to female patient. The most common procedure used for this forehead softening effect is a brow bone reduction. Because the congenital male brow bone is more developed than a females the technique used to adequately reduce its projection is a bone flap setback technique Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Combining Frontal Hairline Advancement With A Direct Browlift in a Female

Background: The appearance of the forehead is heavily dependent on the hair bearing areas that frame it. The frontal hairline is the superior border (at least for women) and the eyebrows are the inferior border. The location of the frontal hairline controls the vertical length of the forehead while the eyebrows influence the appearance of Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Female Forehead Reshaping with Frontal Bossing Reduction and Frontal Hairline Advancement

Background: Since the forehead occupies 1/3 of the total face surface area it has a significant aesthetic influence on the perception of one’s appearance. While the forehead lacks any of the dynamic landmarks that make up the rest of the face (eyes, nose and mouth) one might assume that it has few aesthetic features to Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Total Bony and Soft Tissue Transgender Forehead Feminization Surgery

Background: Occupying a third of the face the forehead is well known to have a gender specific shape and features. For this reason forehead procedures is one of the most common focuses of facial feminization surgery. In male to female forehead feminization the brow bone reduction procedure is most commonly associated with it and, while Read More…

Dual Forehead Reshaping with the Combination of Hairline Advancement and Browlifting

Soft tissue reshaping of the forehead consists of two basic types of procedures based on the anatomic landmarks of the eyebrows and the frontal hairline. (at least in women) There is the conventional rejuvenative browlift procedure which elevates or alters the shape of the brows at the lower end of the forehead. At the superior Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Frontal Hairline Advancement in the Bell-Shaped Female Forehead

Background: The size and appearance of the forehead is heavily influenced by the location of the surrounding hairline, particularly the frontal portion of it. Frontal hairlines that are high, as in patients that have a long forehead, are common aesthetic concerns. Soft tissue forehead reduction or lowering of the frontal hairline can be done by Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Long Term Outcome from Female Frontal Hairline Advancement (Vertical Forehead Reduction)

Background: Forehead reductions can consist of bony and soft tissue procedures. When vertical forehead reduction is desired this implies that the length of the forehead is too high. The number 6.5cms of vertical forehead length is often quoted as being the upper aesthetic limit of forehead length for females. To shorten this distance a frontal Read More…

Forehead Reduction by Frontal Hairline Lowering – Long-Term Results

The long upper third of the face, or the vertically long forehead, can only be treated by one fundamental approach…lower the hairline. To do such forehead reduction requires either hair transplantation or the frontal hairline advancement procedure. There are advantages and disadvantages to either approach and neither one is an ideal solution to every patient. Read More…